Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] to side " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fish has a deep body , narrowly compressed from side to side , very large eyes , prominent fins on both the upper and lower surfaces of the body , and a manlike tail . |
| 2 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 3 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 4 | On Singer/Superba machines , stitches are not transferred from side to side , but instead from back bed to front bed . |
| 5 | When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side . |
| 6 | The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners . |
| 7 | Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook . |
| 8 | b ) This permits the blade to be moved from side to side so that it can be made parallel with the sole . |
| 9 | Sharks in general are n't flattened from side to side as free-swimming bony fish like herrings are . |
| 10 | On the other hand , when the free-swimming ancestor of plaice and halibut , being , like a herring , vertically flattened from side to side , took to the bottom , it was better off lying on its side than balancing precariously on its knife edge of a belly ! |
| 11 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 12 | Now they 're no longer swung from side to side . |
| 13 | When asked how the blood moves round the body , some 5 or 6 year old children swayed from side to side to show how they could make their blood move . |
| 14 | Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side . |
| 15 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 16 | His eyes swept from side to side , probing the edges of the darkness . |
| 17 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 18 | Banks of muscles are attached to the backbone so that the tail can be beaten from side to side with unflagging strength throughout the fish 's life . |
| 19 | As she rose , her eyes , which had flicked from side to side , looked him in the face for the first time . |
| 20 | She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died . |
| 21 | Battered from side to side and up and down bits are torn from the main body and break away exposing parts from the reserve miscelles . |
| 22 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 23 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 24 | The command vehicle rocked from side to side . |
| 25 | He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side . |
| 26 | His egg-shaped body shook with his mirth , and the Model T rocked from side to side . |